Perfectly Here was established in 2007 under Mindful Valley. We are a leading Mindfulness Meditation training organization who has served the greater Los Angeles and beyond. Most importantly, we provide high quality Mindfulness training by combining scientific research, psychology and wisdom practices. Our programs include a mixture of UCLA Certified courses along with custom designed classes created by our founder and Mindfulness instructor, Dr. Manijeh Motaghy, and her team of teachers. These programs include Mindfulness for parents, teen and children, retreats, drop-in sessions, and specialized courses for relationships and communication, ADHD and more. We offer Buddhist teachings for those who are interested to know more than Mindfulness. Perfectly Here is a 501C3 non-profit organization and relies on the generosity of it supporters to keep our programs alive. We offer discounts to First Responders, Veterans and their immediate family members. Please consider contributing to these funds so that we may continue supporting them. Please browse our site and let us know if there are any other areas, you would like us to provide Mindfulness training and classes. Thank you for visiting and be well.

Our six-week course teaches children the simple yet profound tools of mindfulness. Through a variety of activities, the child learns where his/her feelings come from and how to better manage those emotions.

Through a variety of teaching strategies, hands-on activities, group discussions and reflection, participants will practice Mindfulness meditation and learn how the tools of Mindfulness can be applied to everyday parenting challenges.

This class is for those who are interested in the supporting teachings of the Buddha to Mindfulness. For those who are curious, dedicated and determined to go deeper into the realm of the mind and the heart and taking further steps into the realm of freedom and happiness.

This class is for those who are interested in reducing the pain of grief and loss through compassionate means including family and friends who are affected by addiction and loss of loved ones due to addiction.

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Our First Responders not only face life-threatening situations but see some pretty horrendous things as well. Due to this, many of them are left with sleepless nights and PTSD. This then leads to divorce, suicide, and many other painful outcomes. So what can we do to help those who have helped us?

Studies have shown Mindfulness to be the answer. This fundraising campaign’s goal is to raise enough money to give prepaid classes to police, firefighters and EMTs. Join us in making a difference to these brave men and women today.

Compassion is hard to hold on to while experiencing fear, worry, and chaos within the family system of addiction. Your support can help develop the heart of compassion and compassionate boundaries, which create the space for loving relationships.

Practicing loving/kindness, compassion and non-judgmental attitude helped change Kuroosh’s heart and direction. He became kinder, more generous, less selfish and isolated, more aware of others and how he could regulate his emotions and anxieties. He took opportunities to serve and motivate others. Through compassion practices, his demeanor and attitude towards others blossomed into gratitude, appreciation, and kindness.

You and your loved one can experience this as well. A respectful relationship. A compassionate and heartful interaction while drawing and holding firm boundaries to protect yourself.

Looking for the truth and peace, Manijeh communed with nature since she was three years old. She started practicing yoga in 1994 and came to Mindfulness in an undergrad class in 2004. Being overjoyed by finally finding a formal practice and teaching that she had all her life sought and intuitively applied, she delved deeply into the experiential Mindfulness practices and other Buddhist teachings that support Mindfulness.

Dr. Motaghy published the COMANDS: Seven Skills/Traits of Effective Leadership, a mindfulness-based leadership model to help leaders shape their skills in an organic way that is realistic, effective and considerate of what their followers need and respond to.

Developed:The Mindful Employees (ME) Program, an employee wellness and performance and engagement enhancement training for organizations……and designed numerous other curricula such as DOUBLE-AIM for adults with ADHD and other curricula for cancer patients and their families. She has trained and taught Mindfulness to hundreds of individuals, executives and staff at corporations such as Health Net, and Motion Picture Fund & Television Hospital.

Dr. Motaghy is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator by the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Board of Behavioral Sciences and an Authorized MAPS Teacher by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. She teaches these courses in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, CA.

She has provided mindfulness workshops, presentation and training for academic sectors such as the LAUSD and private schools such as Campbell Hall, state-wide professional conferences such as Promising Practices at California State University of Northridge and Girls Scouts of America, local mental health centers such as SFV Community Mental Health Center, and JAS for Social Workers, as well as other health-support organizations such as Leeza’s Place and The Laurel Foundation (AIDS support), Child Development Institute, Jennifer Diamond Cancer Foundation and WeSpark Cancer Support Center where she has conducted weekly sessions for the past 3 years. And corporations such as Disney and Health Net. She has organized and lead over 68 day-long retreats including Work-Life Balance and continues to lead weekly Mindfulness study groups in Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Calabasas and, West Hills. Manijeh is committed to her own personal daily practice and development of Mindfulness.

RELATED TRAINING & EXPERIENCE: Dr. Motaghy continues to study and practice Mindfulness and other Buddhist teachings with teachers at the Abhayagiri Monastery as well as other secular groups. As a dedicated practitioner and teacher, she infuses mindfulness in all her training, consulting and speaking engagements to optimize success and well-being for all involved.

TRAINING RECEIVED AND IN PROGRESS:

2016,2017, 7 Days Dharma & meditation at Abhayagiri

2014,2015, 7 Days Dharma & meditation at Abhayagiri

2014 Studied for a year with Trudy Goodman, the Guiding Teacher at InsightLA, DPG

Daniel is a co-founder and a teacher at Mindful Valley, a nonprofit mindfulness training organization. He currently works with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and is the Buddhist Chaplain at USC. He is affiliated with Abhayagiri Monastery under the guidance of Luang Por Passano.

Daniel was an active member of InsightLA, where he helped build the organization by teaching and serving on its Executive Council. He has trained and taught mindfulness to children with Susan Kaiser Greenland. He has formally practiced Theravada and Zen meditation since 1986.

Joel McNenny

Joel McNenny is a licensed mental health therapist specializing in mindfulness-based therapy and a licensed school counselor who began a K-4 mindfulness program. He holds two Masters degrees (Kent State; Malone University) one in teaching and one in counseling.

Mr. McNenny has taught mindfulness to children as young as 4 and adults as old as 84. He wrote and implemented a year-long mindfulness curriculum for a public school system. He has taught mindfulness at teacher seminars, senior citizen centers, churches and elsewhere, as well as writing on mindfulness for several publications and being quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

Using a variety of methods and visual aids, he illustrates the techniques of mindfulness and its psychological and physical benefits. A devoted practitioner of mindfulness, Mr. McNenny seeks to teach the practice to help create a more compassionate and aware society.

Testimonials

Sharon

“Learning about the obstacles to being happy and being able to identify them when I am experiencing them has helped me feel more calm and peaceful. As a result, I am better able to identify when I am making a story out of my struggles (obstacles) and can release myself from being fixated (stuck) on their repetitive story. As a result, I am able to be present in the here and now rather than get carried away in the story or obstacle.”

“I have always been struck by how Manijeh’s discipline, professionalism, and work ethic co-exist
so seamlessly with sensitivity, calmness, joy, dedication, and above all, kindness.” ∼ Peggy Palmer

“In Manijeh’s presence one is inspired!” ∼ Martin B.

Marilynn Record

“Somehow through the teachings and reinforcing the wisdom given in class I have been able to let go of the idea that I must suffer. I can see my reality in the moment and the ability to choose to not suffer which sometimes comes as a result of not wanting to see my reality and in my suffering my imaginings of the negative grow.

Randy Schultz

“Mindfulness has brought me a new level of calm!! Accepting what is. Bringing love and kindness to myself has given me a new found freedom”

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